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Rudiments
All 40 Percussive Arts Society International Drum Rudiments. Press play to hear any rudiment at your tempo and follow the sticking as it plays.
All 40 are on the Skills Assessment Test. Each must be played from memory, eight times in succession without error, and the panel draws four. Draw four picks four at random, just like the test.
Start slowly enough for complete accuracy, then raise the tempo in steps only while accuracy holds. Right-hand strokes sound slightly to the right and left-hand strokes slightly to the left, so you can hear the sticking with headphones.
Your four
Roll Rudiments
Single Stroke Roll Rudiments
2
Single Stroke Four
3
Single Stroke Seven
Multiple Bounce Roll Rudiments
4
Multiple Bounce Roll
5
Triple Stroke Roll
Double Stroke Open Roll Rudiments
6
Double Stroke Open Roll
Original 267
Five Stroke Roll
Original 268
Six Stroke Roll
9
Seven Stroke Roll
Original 2610
Nine Stroke Roll
Original 2611
Ten Stroke Roll
Original 2612
Eleven Stroke Roll
Original 2613
Thirteen Stroke Roll
Original 2614
Fifteen Stroke Roll
Original 2615
Seventeen Stroke Roll
Diddle Rudiments
16
Single Paradiddle
Original 2617
Double Paradiddle
Original 2618
Triple Paradiddle
19
Single Paradiddle-Diddle
Flam Rudiments
20
Flam
Original 2621
Flam Accent
Original 2622
Flam Tap
Original 2623
Flamacue
Original 2624
Flam Paradiddle
Original 2625
Single Flammed Mill
26
Flam Paradiddle-Diddle
Original 2627
Pataflafla
28
Swiss Army Triplet
29
Inverted Flam Tap
30
Flam Drag
Drag Rudiments
31
Drag
Original 2632
Single Drag Tap
Original 2633
Double Drag Tap
Original 2634
Lesson 25
Original 2635
Single Dragadiddle
36
Drag Paradiddle #1
Original 2637
Drag Paradiddle #2
Original 2638
Single Ratamacue
Original 2639
Double Ratamacue
Original 2640
Triple Ratamacue
Original 26Notation and sticking follow the official PAS International Drum Rudiments sheet, which you can download free from the Percussive Arts Society. Rudiments marked Original 26 are the 26 standard American drum rudiments that PAS adopted in 1984 as part of the 40.
Keep going
The studio handbook has the full Skills Assessment Test, required method books, and more.